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AI World 2026: Pre-Event Masterclass: Upgrade, Migration and Patching

Posted on September 23, 2026 by OCW OOW Workshop 2

AI World this year in Las Vegas is going to happen in about 4.5 weeks from now on. In case you’ll be there on Sunday (which makes perfect sense this year), you may want to consider signing up at AI World 2026: Pre-Event Masterclass: Upgrade, Migration and Patching. Yes, we are doing it again. A full day of specially curated content – with very little overlap with out talks and labs. You are having a full day from 9-5 with the guys who breath upgrades, migrations and patching everyday.

AI World 2026: Pre-Event Masterclass: Upgrade, Migration and Patching

Why should you consider it?

First of all, it is …

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Oracle AI World 2025: Your guide to Upgrade, Migration and Patching Sessions

Posted on September 18, 2025 by OOW 0

Oracle OpenWorld had been renamed to Oracle CloudWorld, and it got rebranded to Oracle AI World this year. And we PMs, Alex, Daniel, Rodrigo and myself look forward to see you there. It’s a perfect opportunity to touch base, discuss your migration challenges, your patching fun – and upgrades certainly, too. You not only can grab a sticker for your laptop lid but we’d love to hear about your experiences, wishes and pain points (if there are any) first hand.

Oracle AI World 2025: Your guide to Upgrade, Migration and Patching Sessions

And of course, we want you to come to our sessions. As usual, we’ll bring real stuff making …

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The downsides of in-place patching – and a patching lab

Posted on January 10, 2024 by Best Practice Patch Recommendation 40

Happy New Year to all of you at first. I hope you all had a good start – and for myself, I promise to blog a bit more again in 2024. Let me start with my first post since I received a question very often: Why should I patch out-of-place with a new Oracle Home? Since I need to patch a bit today I can easily show the downsides of in-place patching – and a patching lab.

It all started at OCW 2023

Ok, we didn’t really start it at OCW 2023 in …

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Oracle Cloud World 2022 – Database Upgrade and Patching Labs

Posted on September 28, 2022 by OOW 2

Oh … it’s just a few weeks left until Oracle Cloud World 2022 will start on Oct 17, 2022 in Las Vegas. If you have some final doubts whether you should go or not, let me tell you that it’s like Oracle Open World just under a different name. And in a different place. But with the same cool people and many great talks. Take the chance to meet the developers, their managers and the product managers behind the features you daily use – or miss. We’ll be there – and this is YOUR chance now to sign up for …

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The new Oracle 19c Hands-On Lab is available

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Hands-On Lab 8

Well, it’s been a while since we refreshed the lab being downloadable via this blog. But finally, the new Oracle 19c Hands-On Lab is available – you can download it as of now.

What’s new in the lab?

First of all, the biggest change you’ll see is that the operating system is now Oracle Linux 7. Well, to be honest, I’m not a die-hard Linux expert and you may find my setup a bit creepy. Feel free to exchange things or adjust them – or drop me a message if you think that adjustments should be made. And of …

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Upgrade Hands-On Lab – Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 – May 2018

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Hands-On Lab 6

Roy just uploaded a newer version of our Upgrade Hands-On Lab – Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 – May 2018.

The previous version had – I believe – and early drop of Oracle 12.2.0.1 installed. And recently somebody complained that certain Multitenant operations such as Hot Cloning with Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 don’t work but result in errors. Therefore, we updated it.

Upgrade Hands-On Lab – Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 – May 2018

The size requirements unfortunately are still the same. Your machine should have 8GB of RAM and you will need a bit more than 60GB free space on disk. You “could” run …

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Hands-On Lab available: Upgrade to Oracle Database 12.2.0.1

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Hands-On Lab Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 17

Thanks to Roy – our Hands-On Lab “Upgrade, Migrate and Consolidate to Oracle Database 12.2” is now available for download from OTN.

Instructions and technical requirements are clearly documented on the OTN page as well. The lab is based on Virtual Box and can be easily imported upon download and unzip.

You can always access the lab via the blog’s top menu as well:

HOL Link on the Upgrade Blog

Hands-On Lab – Access via the Blog

Inside the lab you’ll find :

  • UPGR – an Oracle 11.2.0.4
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